Julie Petersen: 4 books

Clement Clarke Moore's Christmas classic meets Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice when Mr. Darcy gets his own visit from St. Nicholas. In this parody of the beloved original poem, Santa teaches Darcy the true meaning of the holiday and helps him get what he's always wanted—a wife! JULIE PETERSEN...

In the rhyme and meter of Clark Clement Moore’s classic Christmas poem, Sherlock Holmes tracks clues through his familiar haunts to “eliminate the impossible.” When he discovers the jolly old gent with the white beard dipping his hand into a bag full of toys, Sherlock surmises that “whatever...

In clever rhyme, this fully illustrated mash-up of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Moore’s The Night Before Christmas typifies the subtle wittiness of British humor. The poem begins, “’Twas the day before Christmas and Marley was dead—As dead as a door nail, so the old simile read.” Once...

Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships. Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification...